Yes, it is pretty. And even now, people are fascinated by it if you have one. But boy, am I glad I didn't buy one.
I have been trialling one for the last few days. I have learned to live life near a charger - and I haven't used it to do email and make very few voice calls. The battery life is woeful. And using the web is like it used to be several years ago - like watching paint dry! The biggest frustration? The inaccuracy of the text inputs. This is bad enough when you are using the itouch but at the end of the day, you rarely type. On the iphone, you want to but an alpha numeric predictive text phone is so much better. Hopefully some of these challenges will be resolved with iphone2 - we aleady know it has 3G but will other aspects of the UI inputs and responses be improved?
Beyond the brand and its beauty, there is one outstanding redeeming feature. Visual voice mail. Each VM appears independently and can be played with a scrolling controller. So that frustration when you receive a call that has the phone number in it at the end of a 3 minute message and you have no pen? A thing of the past.
Its such a simple solution to a universal 'mobile device' issue. It's nearly enough to convince me to buy one.
Nearly.